Here’s an article in the Financial Times about the Digital Benin project and its implications for the restitution of cultural objects held in foreign museums.
(Via @joshspero on Twitter)
Noted by Damian Cugley .Digital Benin is a digital database of thousands of objects collectively known as the Benin Bronzes, looted from the Kingdom of Benin (now in Nigeria) in the 19th century, combining information from 100 museums.
(Via @joshspero on Twitter)
Noted by Damian Cugley .Had my autumn Covid booster today with way less ceremony than I’m used to – just the briefest of queues, not even a card to take away and lose. Less like emergency arrangement and more like it’s the new routine
The HTML standard is broadly accessible by default and a lot of front end code makes it less accessible in the name of aesthetics or branding or advertising. Here’s a sweary rant site on the subject.
(Via @beirutspring on Twitter)
Noted by Damian Cugley .Voxel Sphere Generator is useful if you are a MInecrafter who wants to make a spherical house and need a breakdown of the shape in to layers you can build. Has a few other similar shapes as well as spheres.
There are various reasons why one might want to rename the default branch of a Git repo from master to main; here’s a quick reminder to myself of how.
Modern web apps are a combination of JavaScript, CSS and other files that get bundled together with a bundler like Webpack or Rollup. Here’s an article on why you might prefer Rollup.
Films made on the animation course at the Royal College of Art going back to the early '90s.
(Via @jimlefevre on Twitter)
Noted by Damian Cugley .Summary and explainers of voting systems by the Electoral Reform Society (based in the UK), with an emphasis on how Single Transferable Vote is their preferred option.